[pmwiki-users] RFC: Ratings Redux

[The Editor]

On 9/27/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:35:23AM -0400, The Editor wrote:
> > Just a few general thoughts on the rating system.
> >
> > 1) I like the five point scale.  As Ben mentioned the problem is how
> > many axis and which ones?  It might be easy to set up several and have
> > them all listed at the top of the recipe in a little table.
>
> Please...
>
>  - not in a table, as that makes them harder to edit and maintain
>  - not more than two or three axes, as then it becomes too much trouble
>   to rate things
>
> > I would suggest one axis be "support", which might allow us to identify
> > recipes that are no longer being supported.  If you ask a question of
> > a recipe author, there's no or a slow answer, you give a lower rating.
>
> I don't think we need a "rating" for this -- a simple [[!Unsupported]]
> category tag will do.  If someone asks a question and gets no answer
> or a slow one, then just add the [[!Unsupported]] tag to the page
> (ideally right next to the question that is needing an answer :-).
> Then we can easily identify which recipes are "unsupported".
>
> > The other option of course is to set up some kind of counter to log
> > actual downloads.
>
> That's a bit of a pain, because web spiders seem to like to download
> the recipes also.   So, we'd have to have the counter filter based
> on web spiders, and we're bound to miss some, so....
>
> Pm

Well then, I'd suggest just a simple one axis 1-5 rating system, with
a link to comments where users can explain their ratings.  And perhaps
with a way for authors to respond to comments but not change the
ratings. Doing something simple is better than talking about something
more complex that doesn't get done.  :)

Better idea to use categories for unsupported recipes.  I'm not used
to using these.  Have to get them into my conceptual framework.

Anyway just doing these two things would be a big boost to the
cookbook.  And tagging them in better ways to differentiate between
"modules" "tips & tricks" "reviews/articles/summaries" etc would solve
the other problems.

Just my thoughts.  Good ideas Pm.

Cheers,
Caveman